The Great Music of Talkbeer - 1970

Each Wednesday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1958 through 2017. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 1970

Honorable mentions begin on Monday

No placeholders. You must post the artist and title followed by the album cover. You may edit your post to include a write-up or videos.

Here is a list of the top albums per Rate Your Music, which is the source I will use to determine an albums release date.

My absolute favorite album of all-time. The songs are endearing and ever-lasting. The harmonies are perfect. The music, phenomenal.
I grew up listening to this, as it is a favorite of my parents. It stuck with me, and as I got more and more into music, it continued to stay with me.

While American Beauty is probably the more well remembered album from the Grateful Dead in 1970, Workingman's Dead always spoke to me more. A giant change from the psychedelic jam sound they had cultivated in the 1960's with much more emphasis on lyrics and a country / folk vibe.

Neil Young's follow up to the more psychedelic rocker Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is his classic folk-inspired masterpiece. The amount of great music Neil put out in various bands over a ~5 year stretch is insane. CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, and his own solo stuff from this period is all phenomenal.

My favorite Bob Dylan album, New Morning. So much positivity and good tunes in this period for him. New Morning, One More Weekend, If Not For You, The Man In Me, Went to see the Gypsy, Day of the Locusts, all just phenomenal songs. . .

This was the sophomore album from this hard rock band and includes massive hits like Paranoid and Iron Man, but also less acclaimed but fantastic songs like Fairies Wear Boots. Black Sabbath along with fellow Englishmen, Deep Purple, among others, were creating groundbreaking music that paved the way for bands like Metallica.
I was not even born until more than a decade after this album was released, but was still jamming out to it a lot in my early teenage years. And when I got to watch Ozzy live in 1998, perform both songs from his solo albums and Black Sabbath albums, that was something special. As someone who listened to a lot of Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura and other similar artists in high school, I have a strong appreciation for this album.

"Powerful" is the word I always think of when I think of this band, especially around this time. There's just so much power in what they do. But that melody is still there. And fucking Keith Moon, I mean...really?